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11151,
V
E
K.
Ephefans,
Chap,5.
T1ìs doth
Incet with
the gentle cenlure
ofmen,
that if they
know
a
vfe
2.
man
to have
no
other
fault, they
will fay, he
is
a
good man,
indeed
worldly and
neer himfelfe:
but how
can he
be good that
is
an
idolater:'
the fcripture
Both
not
fpeak in fuch
termes.
Now
the third
thing
followeth
:
viz.
That the
living
in
thole finnes doth
forfeit
our eftate
in heaven;
Doti,
He
that
will
hold the filthy
finfull pleafures
of
this life,
(hall
not
tafle
the pleafures
of
God,
he
that
will covetoufly
follow
an
earthly
inhe-
ritance, (hall not inherit
Gods kingdome.
But
for the
clearing
of
the
words, a. things mutt be (hewed
:
i.
What
is
Gods
kingdome
t'
dinrw.
Such
a flate
begun here
and
perfected
in heaven
wherein
the
chofen creature
is
willingly fubjefled
to God, who hath
all rule
over
him,
and
who
is
all in
all
to him
that
leadeth
to
happi-
neffe.
i.
How
it
is faid
Chrifts kingdome;when
z
Cer.t5.
a
r.
Chrift
is faid
to
give
up his
kingdome
t
.Anfa'.
Chrift
is
God
and
man, and hath
the
fame kingdome
with
the Father
and the
Spirit
as
God,the
fameeternal!
kingdome:As
man;
he
hath
a
Kingdome
by
commiflion andafiignement from
the Father;
All
power
isgiven
to
me: this begun
after
his
refurreetion, and
(hall
end
after
judgement.
Now
for the dottrine. Obferve hence: the
li-
ving
in
there
finnes
doth
cut
us
fhort
of
our glorious inheritance:
r:
For looke
at the nature
of
finne, it
doth fight
againft
the
foule,
and bring us moreand more under
the power
of
darkeneffe;
fothat
whofoever followeth flnnecannot
but
exclude himfelfe
from Gods
Kingdome. a. Again, the
elate of
this kingdome and inheritance
is
an
eftate
of
light,
Col.
1.12.
brightneffe
of
knowledge, purity, righ-
teoufneffe,
joy
and peace
in
the holy Ghoft
:
this inheritance is a
crown
of
righteoufne(fe,not
of
uncieanneffe
,covetoufneffe.Nowthen
what concord betwixt the
darkeneffe
of
finne
and thisglorious light?
3.
God
is a
Father that
giveth this inheritance,tnd
that
wifely
:
now
a
wife
earthly Father
if
he difcerne
that
fome
who
got
for his
are
bale
ones,
or
of
filth
wretchleffequality
that
they will confume all,
he
will
not
let
them
be
joynt
inheritors
in his
eftate.
Abraham
Pent
out
Ifmael
añd
the
formes
of
Ketorab, much more will
God
if
he
fee
that
we
arc
a
bafe
defcent, that
arc not
begotten by him,
that
we are children
of
the
earth,
alwayescrawling
in
the duff,
he will
not
give
us
a
part
in
his
heavenly inheritance.
4.
Laffly,lookeat the quality
of
them that
are
to inherit, they
muff
be
fuch
as
though
they cannot buy it,yet
in thankefulneffe and in
high
eftimation
of
the hope to which they
are
begotten, they
muff
part
with allthey have, with the
deareft
finnes in
which they
have
lived;
we
muff be
fitted for the
irate
of
grace,
Col.
r.
r
a. who bath
made ae
mate
to be
partakers
of
the inheritance
of
the
Saints;
they
are
worthy.
So
that
all thefe confrdered,here
is
no'parr, nor portion for
filthy
cove.,
tous wretches.
But
yet I know that
a
worldly man
thinkes this
is
hard;
obje£l.
F
f
f
he